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Erlang vs Fortran

A side-by-side look at Erlang and Fortran. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Erlang

Erlang

Development

Erlang is a general-purpose, concurrent, functional programming language known for its high availability, distribution, fault tolerance and soft real-time capabilities. It was originally developed by Ericsson for telecom applications.

functionalconcurrenttelecommunications
Fortran

Fortran

Development

Fortran is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Originally developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, Fortran came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continuous use for over half a century.

numeric-computingscientific-computingcompiledimperative

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